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B-192184 1 (1979-05-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadhew0001 and id is 1 raw text is: o THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION\ OF THE UNITED STATES WASHNGTON. D.C. 20548 FILE: B-192184 oeDATE: ,1979 MVATTER OF: 4' 9?,Q Shirley B. Hiellum and Gay B. Hu phrey-Per diem expenseJ - DIG EST: Employees of the Department of Interior who in fact function as itinerant employees working as a survey crew were traveling between temporary duty s-t-ati.ons wzith _a 46FofiffTiilal stopover planed for their oficial duty staUon in Denver. The employees Uggt the weend in Topeka,2A -4 Kansas, toaxvoid in-cu.ringovertime under the Fair Labor Standard Ac for travel rA on Saturday and Sunday., fgrinerant emp oyees are regu i dt.o .r-a-v-el-onnonw-ord.aysto exfent required by the 2-day rule stated in 56 Comp. Gen. 847 (1977) when etMIrin9 to their official.dutystation. However, in this case, due to the-distance involved in traveling:by automobile, the employees are entitled to per diem for the weekend. By a letter dated June 8, 1978, Mr. Ernest G. Cummins, an Authorized Certifying Officer with the Bureau ofl L Management, Department of the Interior, r quest an advance decision on the reclaim vouchers of Mr. Shirley B. Hjellum and Mr. Gary B. Humphrey for per diem expenses. The record shows that Mr. Humphrey, Mr. Hjellum, and a third employee, Mr. Jimmy W. Begley, worked together as a survey crew. Mr. Hjellum was party chief and Mr. Humphrey and Mr. Begley were survey aids. Mr. Humphrey and Mr. Begley as survey aids were covered by the provisions of th air Labor Standards Act, FLSA; however, Mr. Hjellum wa exempt from the Act. The survey crew completed a temporary duty assignment near Hannibal, Missouri, at noon on Friday, September 9, 1977. After closing their temporary field headquarters they left Hannibal and proceeded by automobile to their next temporary duty site in Mecker, Colorado, with an official stopover of 4 hours planned for Denver, their permanent duty station. Mr. Hjellum was traveling in a

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